Category: entertainment
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Results
I feel really awkward about not liking Results, the first film of the Wisconsin Film Festival. I was so bored with it that I came close to walking out on it two or three times. Then the audience would laugh at something they thought was pretty funny but went right by me, and I’d sit… Read.
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marlowe
I had just finished re-reading Raymond Chandler’s Farewell, My Lovely and was four chapters into The Lady In The Lake when the answer to a long-standing problem finally hit me. For years, I’ve wondered who could believably play Phillip Marlowe. So far, just about everybody who has played him in movies and television, with maybe… Read.
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Snowpiercer
We watched Snowpiercer last night. It got good reviews – a lot of good reviews – and it features a lot of good actors. Turned out to be a muddled mess of a movie, though. Set in the not-too-distant future after an attempt to control global warming goes wrong and plunges the planet into a… Read.
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selma
When rating movies on a scale of one to five, I figure that a three is an average movie that doesn’t feel like a waste of my time, and a four would be a movie that I would recommend. A five, though, is a rare movie that I would not only recommend to you, I… Read.
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looks great but
It’s been ten years since Battlestar Galactica was rebooted by the SyFy Network. Everybody else’s take: Greatest Television Show Ever Broadcast. My take, staying in the five-word format: Looks great, stupid as hell. Looks great: Really great, if you get off on space ships, and who doesn’t? Stupid people, that’s who. And also, killer robots!… Read.
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favorites
Best Songs Of The Seventies, Part One (because I’m pretty sure I’m going to think of lots more for a Part Two right after I hit the “post” button) Bee Gees: crickets. These guys dominated the seventies and eighties. I’ve never been able to figure out why. No one’s ever explained it to me in… Read.
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Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow, the Tom Cruise-Emily Blunt team-up movie in which Cruise time-travels back to the same day over and over again a la Bill Murray in Groundhog Day to kill invading aliens, was a lot more fun than I ever suspected it would be. I don’t like time-travel movies much any more; they’ve pretty… Read.
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The Martian
Sean gave me a copy of The Martian for my birthday. I’d already read it, but it’s the thought that counts. “You’ve already read it too, right?” I asked Sean, who always reads the books he gives to me. “Of course,” he answered with a smile. Tim hadn’t read it yet, so I gave it… Read.
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all is bon
Thank you, Dave Addey, and your Typeset in the Future blog! I haven’t been served up so delicious a serving of Alien minutia in a long time! I swear, I thought all that crap about the “Weyland-Yutani” corporation was just jibber-jabber made up to fill the pages of tech-spec books, that it wasn’t even thought… Read.
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bourbon jenga
We played Bourbon Jenga last night, which is like regular Jenga but with cherry-infused bourbon. You can use regular bourbon if you like; it doesn’t have to be infused with cherries. It doesn’t have to be bourbon, either, but then it probably wouldn’t make sense to call it Bourbon Jenga. You still could call it… Read.
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